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KENYANI DAVIS, MD ’12,

NAMED TO BUFFALO BUSINESS FIRST

MAGAZINE’S 40 UNDER 40

Kenyani “Kiki” Davis, MD ’12, MPH, is a chief
medical officer, a National Institutes of

Health fellow, a passionate advocate for
health equity—and now one of Buffalo

Business First’s 40 under 40.

Her success started with a childhood dream.

As a young girl in Arizona, she accompanied
her father to nursing school, sitting in the

back row envisioning a career in medicine. A
track and field scholarship took her to

William Penn University in Iowa, where she
studied biology and minored in chemistry. At

the end of her freshman year, she found out “Everybody was so
she was pregnant with her son, Izaiah, and supportive. When you are all
visions of medical school started to fade. away from home, you create

this pseudo family very
She graduated and moved home to Arizona intensely and quickly” [...]

where family helped with Izaiah while she
attended the biomedical sciences program at "They got me through, and

the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. when I look at the things that
Through word of mouth, she heard about all of them are doing today, it

Ross University of School of Medicine. Her is amazing. It restores my
family ties to the Caribbean made Ross Med faith in people and medicine,
even more appealing.
even on the hard days.”

With Izaiah in her mother’s care in Arizona,

Dr. Davis enrolled in 2008 and continued her
medical school journey with a cohort she Read More
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